Originally Posted by
CVividasku
You can conclude by yourself what type of rules I "ignore" : the ones that don't have a rational basis.
I am going on a well deserved leave, so I won’t spend time arguing on the several highly debatable things you’ve written above. I just quoted a bit of a scary sentence that clearly sums up the way you think from the highness of your 2000 hours. Just ask yourself what if the rules that do not make sense to you today, start making sense tomorrow. Luckily you will have someone sitting on your left hand side reminding you that some stuff still needs to be done even without any apparent meaning.
With respects to citing incidents and accidents: yes people ended up in the grass because of improper landing techniques or other operational decision errors, but this does not mean that you need to induce even more threats to the already existing ones by “ignoring” procedures that do not make sense to you. You need to ensure that you have done everything in your hands to prevent an event from happening, and if stuff still happens, well it’s in the risk matrix of aviation. You will be judged mainly by what you’ve done to prevent an event should things turn sour. Watch out, legality is very important. If something goes really wrong your last concern will be tea and biscuits with the chief pilot because you might need to spend time talking to a public prosecutor whom in turn will ensure that the boxes about what you were expected to do have been ticked.
Bottom line is: watch out, as the sentence I have quoted above could be the barrier between you and a LHS position one day.